Cuba: the conundrum of the Caribbean still. Few countries its size can claim so many outstanding writers and artists. Even fewer have succeeded in alienating nearly all of them. Most of the best and the brightest of Cuba are in exile. The exodus, begun two decades ago, has accelerated in the last two years. Three of the island's leading writers— Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Octavio Armand, and Reinaldo Arenas—offer different perspectives on the pain and challenge of exile, on the Revolution, and on Cuba's rich and varied contribution to the present cultural renaissance of Latin America.

Modern Greece has been a hapless country. After the fall of Constantinople in 1453, Greece was occupied for almost four hundred years by the Turks. The War of Independence, which began in 1821, continued for twelve years before it was finally resolved and the Triple Alliance implanted the Bavarian King Otho on the throne. Great Britain soon came to dominate Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean—a dominance that lasted, except for the German occupation of 1941-44, until 1947, when the U.S. stepped in with the Truman Doctrine. Thus began the period of the latest domination of Greece.

At the outbreak of World War II, Greece was under the dictatorship of General Metaxas. When, on October 28, 1940, Mussolini issued his ultimatum to Greece, Metaxas replied with his now famous “Ohi” and the Greek troops humiliated Mussolini's minions in the mountains of Albania.

To say that there is room tor improvement in the U.N. development operations would be the understatement of this Development Decade. The truth is that the U.N. launched its development program without an overall policy or a sound strategy III organized for the task, it is still stumbling along an uncharted path.

The Expanded Program of Technical Assistance, or EPTA (so called because it had some modest precursors), was the first program of significant size that brought together the entire U.N. family, i.e.. the United Nations and its specialized agencies. Almost from birth it was caught in a procedural tangle. Expediency, compromises, ad hoc decisions—especially to accommodate the conflicting agency interests and viewpoints—became its hallmark.

When Party Chairman Hu Yao-bang chose the centennial of China's famous author Lu Hsun (1881-1936) to launch a condemnation of the “bourgeois liberalism” among China's contemporary writers, he acted within an established tradition of the Communist party to claim Lu Hsun as its own. In 1939, three years after Lu Hsun's death, Mao Tse-tung issued a statement praising “Lu Hsun the Communist, the giant of China's cultural Revolution,” ignoring the fact that the writer never joined the Party and never accepted the precepts of Marx and Lenin.

Born Chou Shu-jen, Lu Hsun received a classical education, revealing an early affinity for books and art. He entered the Kiangnan Naval Academy and shortly thereafter transferred to the Army Academy, both in Nanking. Here he was introduced to translations of Western literature, notably the works of Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley.